Carless, David and Douglas, Kitrina (2024) A deeper music: arts-based research as critical social psychology. In: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology 2nd ed. Plagrave MacMillan.

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Abstract

Twenty-first century societies—and the people who live within them—face multiple and
complex challenges. Intersecting identities, environment catastrophe, economic-political
instability, and diverse health threats call us to envisage and action innovative psychological
research that makes a difference. Arts-based research comprises a diverse range of
methodological approaches that work in radically different ways in the service of critical
psychological, social, and cultural understanding and transformation. It responds to Denzin’s
(2003) challenge to re-animate the social world by privileging accessibility, engagement,
sensory awareness, and embodied knowing. Arts-based research opens up alternative ways of
thinking, feeling, relating, and experiencing through aesthetic means of inquiry and
communication.

In this chapter, we explore arts-based research as a way of doing critical social
psychology. We provide a brief history of the development of arts-based research in
psychology and offer a rationale for using arts-based approaches in psychology to tackle
twenty-first century challenges. We then focus on one specific example of an arts-based
project to consider in detail issues such as processes, problems, and outcomes. The example
we have selected features a range of artistic genres that include film, music, and song. We
engage with public responses to the work to explore its personal, psychological, social, and
cultural meaning, showing how arts-based research can generate valued psychological insights and impacts. We close by proposing that arts-based research offers a means to
radically democratize critical psychology research and scholarship.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Psychology Social sciences
Depositing User:	Marc Forster
Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2024 07:39
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2024 08:00
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/12132

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